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William Monk and Hester Latterly mysteries volume 17
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 17
William Monk Mystery
William Monk novel volume 17
Language
English
Description
When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
5) Paragon walk
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Ellison Pitt, a proper upper class young woman, and her husband, a police inspector, solve an unpleasant and baffling crime.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
When a doctor is found brutally murdered, even the neighborhood's most hardened residents are stunned. But three more bodies are found, killed the same inexpert way, and Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte race against time to find the killer, as a treacherous mystery unfolds. No one, not the lowest brand of ruffian or the most established aristocrat, will come out unscathed
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
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English
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His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else...
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Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Inspector Monk returns to the scene of another Victorian-era murder mystery when the daughter of an upper-crust family is stabbed in her own home. Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat's daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the...
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English
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Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with a secret informant, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin. As he pursues the killer and the information he needs to stop a devastating plot against the British government, his clever wife Charlotte heads to Dublin to investigate a case involving Pitt's supervisor, Victor Narraway.
14) Half Moon Street
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Thomas Pitt, investigating the discovery of a dead man found drifting in the Thames, must walk a narrow line between hunting down the guilty and protecting the innocent when his search for answers leads him deep into Victorian London's bohemia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
While on patrol near the Waterloo Bridge, Inspector William Monk and his men witness the deaths of a young couple, but as Monk tries to investigate the deaths, he stumbles upon a conspiracy with ties to the highest levels of government.
16) Seven dials
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch investigates the murder of a diplomat whose body turns up at a mansion inhabited by the notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari and her rumored lover, Senior Cabinet Minister Saville Ryerson.
17) Bedford Square
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Pitt investigates a blackmail ring, threatening to ruin the reputation of prominent people in Victorian London. It all begins with the discovery of a dead body outside a general's house. By the author of Brunswick Gardens.
Author
Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In 1890s London, Superintendent Pitt of Bow Street police station investigates the death of a woman working as a researcher in a vicarage. An autopsy shows she was pregnant. There are three suspects, one of them the vicar, a married man.
19) Southampton Row
Author
Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 22
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When a clairvoyant is found murdered following a late night séance, Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte become entangled in a bitter political battle over a crucial seat in Parliament when they discover that the wife of one candidate participated in the fatal séance.
20) Traitor's gate
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In Victorian England, superintendent Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, investigate murder and espionage. The case centers on traitors selling Germany documents relating to Britain's colonial plans in Africa. By the author of The Hyde Park Headsman
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